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    Old is stability (lemmy.world)
    submitted 8 months ago by Waffelson@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    For my use cases (audio, programming, engineering school, watching crap on FreeTube) I value stability and predictability over security and shiny new stuff. In the rare cases that things break, they break in ways that are already well-understood, so usually have workarounds or solutions.

    In the few cases I do need something newer than the Debian repos provide, I just use Flatpaks or get an updated .deb from the devs of the particular software.

    So yeah, zero rush for Plasma 6 for me. It looks nice, but I'll just be chilling on Plasma 5 until it comes out.

    [–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 points 8 months ago

    Arch is actually pretty stable. And one of the best things about using arch is the arch wiki which is the best documentation I've ever seen for any distro.

    My experience trying to solve specific issues on Debian and Ubuntu lead me down rabbit holes of forums where even the accepted answer is wrong.

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